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Posted on February 22, 2023February 23, 2023

IF NOT DE FACTO, THEN WHAT?

So where are we now on our journey to independence when the route to our destination is facing a crossroads with the possibility a redirection…

By petewish
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  • Independence
Posted on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023

DE FACTO 3 – WHAT WE DO WHEN WE WIN

Well, that was encouraging then. An opinion poll published last week showing that a de facto referendum at the next Westminster election would be decisively…

By petewish
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  • Independence
Posted on January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

DE FACTO 2 – HOW WE ORGANISE

So, if agreed, a de facto referendum it is and the SNP membership will decide whether it will be Westminster or Holyrood that will be…

By petewish
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  • Independence
  • Policy
Posted on January 11, 2023January 23, 2023

DE FACTO REFERENDUM IS THE ONLY ROUTE TO SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE

LET me put this out there straight away. A de facto referendum is just about the worst possible way to settle the constitutional future of…

By petewish
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  • Independence
  • Policy
Posted on May 27, 2021January 23, 2023

ALBA – WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG

So it wasn’t so much a ‘supermajority’ it was more electoral ignominy. Coming in at 1.7% the Alba Party didn’t rise like a phoenix but…

By petewish
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  • Independence
Posted on February 13, 2021January 23, 2023

A PLEBISCITE CAN’T GET US TO INDEPENDENCE

With just a few weeks to go till the May Holyrood elections there are still some in the wider Yes movement hankering to turn that…

By petewish
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  • Independence
  • Westminster
Posted on November 23, 2020January 23, 2023

WHAT HAPPENS IF BORIS SAYS NO?

So that’s another 2 opinion polls confirming that Yes remains the majority choice of the people of Scotland. 14 opinion polls in a row this…

By petewish
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  • Brexit
  • Independence
  • Westminster
Posted on October 29, 2020January 23, 2023

THE 2019 ELECTION CHANGED EVERYTHING

It’s a year to the day since the 2019 General Election was called and it will go down as the election that changed everything around…

By petewish
  • Independence
Posted on October 26, 2020January 16, 2023

PLAN B IS NOT THE ANSWER

So it looks like Plan B is to be debated at conference and the party will have a chance to decide if this is indeed…

By petewish
  • Independence
Posted on September 20, 2020January 16, 2023

THE CRISIS IN UNIONISM

What has happened to unionism?  6 years after a decisive win in the first independence referendum its prospects have never been so grim and its…

By petewish

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